63. Q. To what source of Greek learning do all these manuals acknowledge their indebtedness? A. To German sources of Greek learning. 64. Q. Who is the most recent of the great German authorities in Greek grammar? A. Curtius. 65. Q. In what dialect are the books chiefly written from which the selections are taken in making up Greek readers? A. The Attic dialect. 66. Q. How many chief dialects were there of the Greek language, and how were they created? A. There were three—the Ionic, the Doric and the Attic—created in part by differences of age, and in part by difference of country. 67. Q. In whose writings is the Ionic dialect exemplified, and how is it characterized? A. In the writings of Homer and Herodotus, and is characterized by fluent sweetness to the ear. 68. Q. In what dialect were the most of the greatest works in Greek literature composed? A. The Attic. 69. Q. What are some of the distinguishing features of the Attic dialect? A. It is the neatest, most cultivated and most elegant of all the varieties of Greek speech. 70. Q. To whom are the fables commonly attributed that are generally found in Greek readers? A. To Æsop. 71. Q. Who made the collection of fables that go under Æsop’s name? A. They are mainly the collection of a monk of the fourteenth century. 72. Q. What are the names of some of the eminent persons about whom anecdotes are usually related in the collections found in Greek readers? A. Diogenes, Plato, Zeno, Solon, Alexander, and Philip of Macedon. 73. Q. What Greek writer of the second century after Christ is more or less quoted from in the ordinary Greek reader? A. Lucian. 74. Q. What famous dialogues did he write? A. Dialogues of the dead. 75. Q. Of what have these dialogues been the original? A. Of several justly admired imitations. 76. Q. In what direction did Lucian exercise his wit? A. In ridiculing paganism. 77. Q. What are some of the kinds of other matter that goes to make up the Greek reader? A. Bits of natural history and fragments of mythology. 78. Q. From what work of Xenophon do Greek readers often embrace extracts? A. His “Memorabilia of Socrates.” 79. Q. What was the design of this work? A. To vindicate the memory of Socrates from the charges of impiety and of corrupting influence exerted on the Athenian youth, under which he had suffered the penalty of death. 80. Q. What is the plan of the work largely? A. To relate what Socrates did actually teach. 81. Q. What work by a Christian writer did pagan Socrates in large part anticipate? A. “Natural Theology,” by Paley. 82. Q. What was the chief characteristic trait of the method of Socrates in teaching? A. His art in asking questions. 83. Q. What is the book usually adopted in sequel to the reader for giving students their Greek preparation to enter college? A. Xenophon’s “Anabasis.”